The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Two - The Centenary Special

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🗓️ 11 April 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In a special bumper hour-long episode, we celebrate a hundred years of the New Statesman. Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss Thatcher's legacy, Philip Maughan and Jonathan Derbyshire take a trip into the magazine's archives, Daniel Trilling, Yiannis Baboulias and Laurie Penny talk about the reaction to austerity in Europe, Will Self makes the case for a pessimistic world view, Helen Lewis and Sophie Elmhirst discuss the magazine's relationship with poetry, we decide whether or not the Left won the 20th century, and Alex Hern tells you what Bitcoin is.

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1:22.0	Laurie Penny, Natasha Walter, and many, many more.
1:25.0	Today on the podcast we'll be talking to Janus Babulius about austerity in Greece,
1:29.0	delving into the NS archive with Jonathan Derbyshire and Philip Moore.
1:32.0	Talking pessimism with Well Self and Sophie Elmhurst. Chatting a little bit about whether
1:36.8	Bitcoin is a bubble and asking whether the left won the 20th century.
1:40.3	As we go the New Statesman staff will read out some of the Centenary Clary-Hlerhues written for us by Craig Brown.
1:46.0	But first we'll look at the big political news of the week, the death of Margaret Thatcher and the left's response to it. I'm joined by Raphael Bear, our political editor and George Eaton editor of the Stagger
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